Flush

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv So as to be level or even.

II. Flush ·adj Consisting of cards of one suit.

III. Flush ·noun A hand of cards of the same suit.

IV. Flush ·adj Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.

V. Flush ·vt To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.

VI. Flush ·vi To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.

VII. Flush ·noun A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.

VIII. Flush ·vi To snow red; to shine suddenly; to Glow.

IX. Flush ·adj Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.

X. Flush ·vt To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.

XI. Flush ·noun A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.

XII. Flush ·vi To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to Blush.

XIII. Flush ·vi To flow and spread suddenly; to Rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

XIV. Flush ·noun A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, ·etc.; as, a flush of joy.

XV. Flush ·vt To Excite; to Animate; to Stir.

XVI. Flush ·vt To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.

XVII. Flush ·noun A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

XVIII. Flush ·adj Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.

XIX. Flush ·add. ·vt To cause by flow; to draw water from, or pour it over or through (a pond, meadow, sewer, ·etc.); to cleanse by means of a rush of water.

XX. Flush ·add. ·vi To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.

XXI. Flush ·noun Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.

XXII. Flush ·add. ·vi To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.

XXIII. Flush ·vt To cause to be full; to Flood; to Overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.

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